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* 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication. | * 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication. | ||
* 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam". | * 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (Plimpton 51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam". | ||
* 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties. | * 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties. | ||